So, why rally around the Anti-Mitt candidate who is the most like Mitt? That would be Newt.
Well you have swerved into the problem. Conservatives don’t agree on very much. Take you and me. I don’t see any of the candidates including Newt Gingrich as being anything like Mitt Romney. But you do. I see them them as all quite different.
Actually what is going on is a squabble over 2nd place. The math is the math. When you have that many conservatives dividing the vote then the nomination is Mitt Romney’s to lose. The only thing that can stop that is for candidates to drop out and throw their support to remaining candidates. Right now I don’t see Cain, Perry, Paul or Gingrich dropping out. Perhaps Bachmann.